The Sewing Room

Tete_en_l'Air

Hi Pirate Fairy! How competent do you feel after finishing your dressmaking course? I'm about a third of the way through mine and still feel pretty daunted about making actual items of clothing!

piratefairy

Well, I chose to make a dress, and completed it within the 10 sessions of the course (just)..And it is great, although the classes were really informal, and a bit more liek DT lessons at school with everyone just carrying on with their own projects, rather than being taught specific things, so I have subsequently collected a few books on sewing/ dressmaking / altering clothing, and would say I'm confident enough to follow a pattern now..

Tete_en_l'Air

Ah it was only 10 lessons? Mine goes from Sept-June but I know what you mean about the lesson structure - quite often we go in and just sort of sit there waiting for instructions that don't come. I'm getting on with my skirt at home now rather than having to thread a sewing machine in the right colour every Wednesday at college, and just trying to work on technique samples in class. It's good to have the teachers there to help though - I need to do gathers in my skirt and will deifnitely need help with that!

piratefairy

Yes, agreed, I had done some bits of sewing before the course, but had never worked from a patten, just done a few alterations etc, so it was good to have the teacher avaialbel and she helped with the gathers, zip, and showed buttonholes etc on the machine, so I was glad..Yeah, it was just a 10 evening course, but I think it was worth it.

jess444_2

HI,

Just found this thread and just have to make a sock monkey!:rolleyes:
I have found a good tutorial [EMAIL="http://www.web-goddess.org/writing/tutorial/Image0.html"]here[/EMAIL] but just wanted to check what size sock people tend to use. Do they have to be knee length or just longish socks IYSWIM.

Thanks,

Jess

23rdspiral

with all this talk of sock monkeys, i feel the need to show you a little glove monster i made last year. but i don't know how! i use flickr, same username, is there any way to add a photo from there?

Tete_en_l'Air

Have you tried right clicking on it and just copying and pasting? That's what I did with my pic from facebook...

tdd111

fab artic monkeys!!!!

i made 2 for my girls and now have orders for more!!

i've just sewn a scottie dog shape for a doorstop but now need something to stuff him with, something washable prefrably any ideas??

whoopidoo

stardrops42 wrote: »

Great blog whoopi Noticed that you like to comp, I used to love to comp and I've won some great prizes including a £2000 range cooker which has pride of place in my kitchen:dance: I just haven't got enough hours in the day now:rotfl:

Sorry everyone back to sewing now

Thank you Blimey that's a fantastic prize. I don't comp as often as I did because you do literally have to spend hours at it don't you? I am going to try and dedicate a day a week to it though as did win some fabby pressies for people last year. Made my MIL cry when I won her a DS - she had wanted one for ages Had my first win of the year this week, came 3rd on the Fiskarettes Christmas comp with the tree angels I made so that's kind of got me back in the mood again! Don't know what I've won just that it's some new Fiskars products.

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

Whereabouts in Kent are you? You could take it to Bromley sewing machines, they have a branch in Tunbridge Wells.

http://www.worldofsewing.com/

I also have a phone number of someone that my friend used who is based in West malling if you want it. Alternatively ccb sewing machines in Rochester do sewing machine servicing.

http://www.ccbsewing.co.uk/default.asp

Oh brilliant - thank you for these, I'm actually sat googling people now so will take a look at these. I'm on the Isle of Sheppey.

23rdspiral

Thanks Tete, that was more simple that i thought it would be and i guess i'd made it complicated for myself by trying to add a pic though the button and it wanting a ULR...

anyway, he's a little glove monster i made last year. he's a bottle topper, but i guess i must have drunk the bottle by the time i took the picture...